robots

10 Robots Inspired by Animals and Insects

All the research in the world can’t beat millions of years of evolution. Today’s roboticists are increasingly looking to nature for inspiration, creating robots that move and behave with uncanny similarity to living animals. …

Giant Robot Snake Meets Walking Mechanical Spider

Titanoboa meets Mondo Spider! It sounds like the premise for a bad B-movie, but no, it’s all terrifyingly real, thanks to the artists and designers over at eatART.

In one corner, Titanoboa, the 35-foot electro-mechanic snake that uses its 20 aluminum vertebrae to crawl just like its flesh and blood cousins. In the other, Mondo Spider, …

Two Bickering Chatbots Video: Artificial Intelligence Gone Awry

More like artificial fun-telligence, am I right? Eggheads have been working for years—years!—to perfect chatbots to the point that real people won’t be able to tell that they’re actually conversing with software, not other humans.

The technology has come a long way, but what happens when you pair two chatbots together to converse …

Foxconn: Your Next iPad May Be Assembled by a Robot

Foxconn, the Chinese manufacturing contractor that often produces Apple’s newfangled iDevices, has decided that they’re going to up the ante, slowly replacing factory workers with robots.

Within the next three years, Foxconn plans to include 1 million robots in its workforce while phasing out some of its human workers. Currently, …

Robot Apocalypse News of the Week: Machines That ‘Dream’

Most of the robots we’re vaguely familiar with are good at menial tasks, like welding car parts or assembling microchips. But that isn’t to say that what they do isn’t difficult: Those tasks require ultra-precise data to be programmed beforehand. And though there are practical applications for spatially aware technology–like the …

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